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If you just want to scan barcodes and accept whatever you get, this app will satisfy you. The scanner is as good as you will find. But if you edit your book entries, this app is treacherous and may as well have been designed to infuriate users who curate their book catalog. Best practice among app developers is to save edits unless the user cancels them. This app confuses you into thinking it works that way, because the “Save” button disappears when you scroll down, but “Close” is visible at all times in the top bar. So you work your way down the page, adding tags, assigning a bookshelf, a

I keep Firefox Focus in the bottom row of my apps, and I always use it first to visit all websites I haven’t registered for. I pick Firefox Focus from other apps’ Share menu, or if the URL is copied to the clipboard, I launch Firefox Focus and paste the URL into the address bar. The sites load faster and without spying on me. If I need to dig deeper, I hand off the site to Safari, Firefox, or Chrome, using the … menu. My only request is that a little more space be added above the top row of the app’s bare-bones keyboard. Now and then I accidentally tap the window above the keyboard, dismissi